hammer home

Example Sentences

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Home captain Rani Khedira overpowered former Union midfielder Robert Andrich to pounce on a loose ball and hammer home in the 28th minute.

From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026

Some wrestled with its challenging shifts in perspective or its use of excess and repetition to hammer home the relentlessness of living without the right to self-determination.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024

Preston's first-half exertions began to show and it did not take much of a drop off for the Blues to hammer home their advantage.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2024

We need a big tent, and we need to hammer home what’s at stake: It’s now or never.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2023

And high rates of immigration and immigrant success stories seem to hammer home the point: The rules of advancement have changed.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times